The usual band of left-wing, ivory tower apologists over at the Baltimore Sun Editorial Board wrote an entirely unsurprising piece attacking Mac Love and defending Peter Franchot.
My thoughts on the Mac Love situation I wrote about earlier this week, but I want to highlight something from their ponderous editorial:
No, the bottom line difference between the two cases is simply this: Mr. Franchot did not judge Mr. Foxwell’s behavior to be worthy of firing. Mr. Love’s immediate supervisor, Steve McAdams, did and his ultimate boss, Gov. Larry Hogan, approved. This is how it works in what are known as “at will” jobs, those positions outside the civil service where governors and lesser elected officials stick their loyalists. Unless a firing represents an especially blatant violation of employment law (because of race or gender or for blowing a whistle on wrongdoing, for example), governors have the authority to send you packing simply because they think someone else could do the job better.
So the short version is this, and it’s what the Sun concedes: Peter Franchot is fine with his employees spewing hate speech and Larry Hogan isn’t.
The longer version is what we always have known: The Baltimore Sun Editorial Board is full of hypocrites and blatant apologists for anything that a left-wing Democrat does. Even in situations like this, where the behaviors are clearly similar, they hold Democrats and Republicans to wildly different standards. Is it because of partisan bias? Is it because of ideological differences? Or is it for socio-economic reasons, that the Editorial Board continues to think they are the betters of anybody who isn’t a left-wing Democrat?
Regardless of their reasons, this double standard is a clear display of the ideological hypocrisy of Tricia Bishop and the rest of the Sun’s Editorial Board.